Paso Robles cattleman visits Obama in White House

Kevin Kester, a rancher from Paso Robles, attended a meeting with President Barack Obama yesterday about preservation efforts. Kester is the president of the California Cattlemen's Association and represented California ranchers at the White House yesterday. He was there when Obama announced the release of a new report on America's Great Outdoors Initiative, the program the White House started last year to preserve open space and parks nationwide. "We talked to them about the great efforts cattlemen and ranchers are making to preserve the environment and keeping working spaces open across the nation," Kester said. But this is all happening at the same time Governor Brown is trying to take away benefits from California ranchers, and they say they can't keep their land open if Brown cuts funding for the Williamson Act...more